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By David Meyer
Published: Friday 9 June 2006
Google is becoming BT's biggest competitor. That's the surprise assessment of BT's chief information officer, Al-Noor Ramji, who believes the telco "can do anything that Google can do".
Speaking at the Gigaworld IT conference in Lisbon on Wednesday, Ramji told delegates BT needs to change to keep pace with fast moving businesses such as Google.
Ramji said: "We see Google as our biggest threat. They don't mean to… it's almost incidental." He admitted t... |
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By Tom Giovanetti
Fast forward a few years to 2009. You're in the living room, watching the big game in high definition on your new Internet-connected IPTV, while separately recording tonight's episode of your favorite TV show. Your spouse is in the kitchen, reading a recipe on a laptop and talking on the telephone, using Voice Over IP. Junior and Suzie are in their rooms doing ``something'' on the Internet. It's the converged, always-on, interconnected world we've all been dreaming of.
Suddenly, the ... |
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by Matthew Wade
Etisalat has increased the number of 12STM1 links it uses to supply internet bandwidth to the UAE by 12, up to 49. By commisioning these links (its first on the SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable), it has boosted the UAE’s bandwidth capacity by 7.5Gbps (gigabits per second).
According to Etisalat, the capacity it now has available is the highest offered by any single provider in the region and should both help fund the data growth of the internet in the UAE and help ensure that the service e... |
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UK music fans no longer face the threat of prosecution for copying their own CDs on to PCs or MP3 players, as long as the songs are only for personal use.
Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said consumers would only be penalised if they made duplicates of songs for other people.
Currently anyone transferring music to portable devices breaks copyright laws.
The music industry has traditionally turned a blind eye, however, in favour of targeting "professional" pirates.
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The Carphone Warehouse has failed in its bid to force BT to slash the cost of migrating fully unbundled broadband lines in bulk. The decision by Ofcom means that Carphone will have to shell out more cash to migrate each fully unbundled line than it had hoped, adding to its overheads.
Earlier this year, Opal Telecom (part of Carphone Warehouse) called on Ofcom to resolve a dispute concerning the maximum charge BT can make for the bulk migration of fully unbundled (MPF) and shared access (SMPF) lines.
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Surf the net four times faster from today
/noticias.info/ Milan, June 12, 2006 - Vodafone Italia is launching the Super UMTS Broadband service. From today Vodafone customers can surf the net at the speed of 1.8Mbit a second, which is four times faster than the present UMTS speed.
The new Super UMTS Broadband service will take off today in Turin and Milan and by the end of the month coverage will equal that of UMTS.
Vodafone Italia customers can avail themselves of the new service immediately by... |
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CAIRO, June 13 (UPI) -- Egypt Telecom is upgrading its broadband capabilities so it can offer Voice over Internet Protocol and data services to various parts of its network.
The carrier will deploy Broadband Carrier Loop equipment made by California's Zhone Technologies and Nortel's CS2K Softswitches and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) technology.
Zhone said in a news release Tuesday that the migration would apply only to Telecom Egypt's voice services at first, while other services might be launch... |
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14/06/2006 - 14:10:49
Less than one per cent of Government business carried out on the internet makes use of the State-owned broadband infrastructure, it emerged today.
Despite some €120m of taxpayers’ money being spent to date on the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) – a nationwide web of internet hubs to bring broadband to the regions – the Government still uses Eircom for 90% of its online activity.
Fianna Fáil TD Noel O’Flynn, who chairs the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natura... |
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Business: 14 June 2006, Wednesday.
Bulgaria's fixed line operator BTC has downed the price for providing ADSL Internet access.
A month's unlimited 512 kbit/s will cost BGN 25, instead of 39.6. According to BTC, that is their most popular ADSL package.
The promotion will be valid over June 15 - July 31, and those who want to benefit will have to subscribe for two years.
The company is also decreasing the price for the 512 BIZ package from BGN 66 to BGN 42, for two-year subscription.
By the end... |
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Richard Wray
Friday June 16, 2006
The Guardian
BT said yesterday it had lost half a million residential phone lines to competitors as broadband operators such as TalkTalk, from Carphone Warehouse, and Orange increased their investment in local loop unbundling (LLU).
BT's Openreach business, which controls the process, is receiving 20,000 orders a week. LLU allows rival firms to place equipment in BT's exchanges and transfer customers to their networks. When 1.5m lines are unbundled, BT's wholesale un... |
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By Noel Wandera
Telkom Kenya yesterday said that it would increase local calls tariffs by between 40 per cent and 65 per cent from next month.
Telkom Kenya managing director, Sammy Kirui, said the rates had been reviewed because the firm would start billing calls per minute, instead of every three minutes as is the case currently.
Kirui also said the changes were meant to stop illegal termination of international traffic to the Telkom Kenya network, which led to a loss of Sh260 million between June... |
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Lagos, Nigeria, 06/19 - Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministers from 24 Eastern and Southern African countries have unanimously approved the NEPAD ICT Broadband Network, the NEPAD secretariat said.
The network includes the operational principles for the East Africa Submarine System Project (EASSY) and a roadmap for the speedy implementation of its construction.
The approval came at a recent meeting of the Ministers in Johannesburg, South Africa, the NEPAD secretariat said in its offi... |
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Andy Kessler
Mon Jun 19, 6:39 AM ET
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 011, Issue 39 - 6/26/2006 - FINDING IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND the "net neutrality" debate? On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even Microsoft. Net neutrality is their rallying cry. Despite the fact that they are basically schlocky ad salesmen on a grand scale, they're pushing this quaint, self-serving '60s notion that the Internet is a town square--all for one and one for the... |
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Today, BT launched what it calls its Total Broadband package. The package includes 8Mb connection, free (subject to conditions) VoIP voice and video calls, plus a suite of security software. Three options are offered with prices starting at £17.99 a month, although the current special offer brings this down to £9.95 for the first six months. Option 2 and 3 Total Broadband customers will be provided with a free BT Home hub, potentially offering them access to BT Fusion (FMC) and Vision (entertainment) servic... |
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Dan Milmo
Tuesday June 20, 2006
The Guardian
Mobile phone operator O2 became the latest telecoms company to enter the fixed-line world on Tuesday with the acquisition of Be, the British broadband provider, for £50m.
Be is building a national broadband network and expects to cover 50% of the UK population by the end of the year and two-thirds by late 2007. Peter Erskine, chairman and chief executive of O2, credited inspiration for the deal to O2's new owner, Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, which ac... |
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